Still havn't decided which way to take when it comes to Ajax and ASP.NET. In my last post I talked about Atlas and me being a little negative to it. Since then I jumped on to Ajax.NET which looked perfect for my needs. However I gotten into some trouble with it (but still really impressed with it), but it led me out on the searching road again.
Next stop JQuery (all my Ajax articles and samples are available here ). And so far I really like it. Maybe it's because I have gotten into Javascript programming more - and especifically the type of notion JQuery offers you - but so far it looks very promising. I have created some basic examples based on some really simple cases and all of them was possible to implement really nice with jQuery.
However, please note that jQuery is totally client side - you have no serverside help at all, so you will need to write your handlers yourself, serialize objects back and forth (I used JSON). Meaning you get no automatically generated Javascript routines as you do from Ajax.net - but still - the level of abtraction is good enough and nothing stops you from creating your own "ajax.net" like server component if you like. I will continue working with it - and work on easing the usage of it from an asp.net developers view.